“It still amazes me how little we really knew. . . . Maybe everything that happened to me and my family had nothing at all to do with the slowing. It’s possible, I guess. But I doubt it. I doubt it very much.”
On a seemingly ordinary Saturday in a California suburb, Julia and her family awake to discover, along with the rest of the world, that the rotation of the earth has suddenly begun to slow. The days and nights grow longer and longer, gravity is affected, the environment is thrown into disarray. Yet as she struggles to navigate an ever-shifting landscape, Julia is also coping with the normal disasters of everyday life—the fissures in her parents’ marriage, the loss of old friends, the hopeful anguish of first love, the bizarre behavior of her grandfather who, convinced of a government conspiracy, spends his days obsessively cataloging his possessions. As Julia adjusts to the new normal, the slowing inexorably continues.
Read an excerpt HERE.
Check out the timeline of "the slowing" HERE.
"The Age of Miracles is a quiet book with a staggering tale to tell. It is the coming-of-age story of Julia, a young girl -- struggling with parents, friends, and first love --set against the backdrop of a completely unique, and possibly final, disaster for the human race. Walker, in her first novel, is able to create compelling characters that act in understandable and familiar ways, even when faced with the slowing of the Earth's rotation, a catastrophe whose consequences are unpredictable and terrifying. I was dazzled by Julia and her world both before and after the 'slowing'. What a great book."
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